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The web talks and you talk back

IBM has come up with its annual list of innovations that "have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years," and that list includes a "Talking Web." You will... Read more...

Ask.com makes improvements

Ask.com has, in the past, come up with search innovations, but it has done little to help the company's business. It remains in fourth place in a market dominated by Google. But Ask.com is not giving... Read more...

The top 12 Green IT departments

Not your father's IT

Every CIO has good days and bad day. And for Doug Caddell, chief information officer for the law firm, Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee, Wis., there are plenty of good ones. The reason is quite... Read more...

Patent system is in crisis, say several vendor execs

Executives from Google, IBM and Apple, speaking this week on a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit in Palo Alto, CA, had some pretty harsh words for the U.S. patent system, noting that patents are... Read more...

Web 2.0 must be embraced sooner rather than later

CIOs who want to tap into the innovative vein of their organizations would be wise to stop resisting the integration of Web 2.0 technologies (such as blogs, social networking environments,... Read more...

Does IT matter?

The distinction between IT-as-innovation and IT-as-enabler-of-process-innovations is critically important. It's the distinction between a one-time shock to a system, and a system in which shocks... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: The fourth dimension of the CIO; IT departments spend too much on maintenance;

> The fourth dimension of the CIO. Blog > IT departments spend too much on maintenance. Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Industry group collects big on software infractions; Business networking site now boasts Q&A feature; and much

> Industry group collects big on software infractions. Article > Business networking site now boasts Q&A... Read more...

2006's notable quotables

Every year brings a slew of published comments from those in the IT industry and some of those comments will ring true for some time. From hyping new products to commenting on the state of various... Read more...